And I didn't know what that meant for a long time. It was only when I began to travel and look and live beyond my home that I understand my responsibility to others.

The sun doesn't lose its beauty when covered by the clouds. The same way your beauty doesn't fade when being covered by Hijab

Different is good. When someone tells you that you are different, smile and hold your head up and be proud.

Every day we choose who we are by how we define ourselves.

Where ever I am I always find myself looking out the window wishing I was somewhere else.

I've realized that being happy is a choice.

I love to put on lotion. Sometimes I'll watch TV and go into a lotion trance for an hour. I try to find brands that don't taste bad in case anyone wants to taste me.

I know my children will never have to say, 'Mom died of ovarian cancer.'

If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I'm not frightened by anyone's perception of me.

I'm odd looking. Sometimes I think I look like a funny muppet.

I've been reckless, but I'm not a rebel without a cause.

He prayed as he breathed, forming no words and making no specific requests, only holding his heart, like broken birds in cupped hands,

Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear.

That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere.

A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.

If the mind is tranquil and occupied with positive thoughts, the body will not easily fall prey to disease

I would have liked to be a comedian in the '20s, or maybe even a comedian on the Mayflower and have a statue somewhere.

To get Congress to do anything.

I really believe that happiness comes from things that cannot taken away from you.

All the States but our own are sensible that knowlege is power.

The bird that hath been limed in a bush, with trembling wings misdoubteth every bush.